The UN envoy’s team talks about the failure of the Syrian Constitutional Committee
Informed sources confirmed that the Deputy United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Khawla Matar, told members of the civil society delegation in the Syrian Constitutional Committee a few days ago, of the “failure” of the committee’s file, and that the UN team “was unable to advance in this file in an effective step.”
Yesterday, Friday, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed website quoted (unnamed) sources as saying that the team of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, suffers from a deadlock regarding the constitutional committee file, noting that the Assad regime deliberately made “subversive” remarks on the matter. A proposal to hold the sixth round, which Pedersen proposed last April.
Despite Russian promises that the Assad regime would be “more serious” in dealing with the commission’s file after the completion of its presidential elections, Matar, who is visiting Damascus, “faced new and unexpected obstacles,” according to the sources.
The co-chair of the Constitutional Committee on behalf of the Assad regime, Ahmed al-Kuzbari, made comments on Pedersen’s proposal, which would “overthrow” Pedersen’s proposal, which means that “the regime did not officially reject the proposal, but it suspended it.”
According to the sources, “Pederson’s team has heard words in Damascus that the facts of the Syrian reality today differed, and that the “Syrian people” chose Bashar al-Assad by the majority, which means that the way to deal with the constitutional committee file has differed,” and “it is an indication from the The Assad regime indicated that today it is stronger than the pre-election period, and that its entry into the new round of constitutional committee meetings must be according to its conditions.”
The fifth round of the Constitutional Committee’s meetings was described by the Special Envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, as “disappointing.”
